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this is my favorite casual friday ever. seriously.
and, it’s the first time i’m first to post! woohoo.
peace.
Dang, not first…again!
These were the most entertaining tree-huggers I’ve seen in a long time.
The tweety birds in the background were a nice touch as well.
Amanda is a bit more photogenic than Bre in all honesty.
Steadycam would be a great addition to their equipment.
Inspiring! I need to make something like that.
Nice casual friday! I just don’t know why it’s written “sorry links” instead of “story links”
Tree huggin dudes. That idea is so 60’s, better known as the game “Mousetrap”.
What a unique idea, brilliantly executed, and BADLY filmed.
Wilmaaah, I’m home!
Very interesting! I couldn’t work out if the final “moment” was the ringing of the bell or a drop of water falling into a pond?
Awesome!
In school I built a Rube Goldberg device that actually did a card trick. It went through about a dozen different objets / machines, and then at the end there is a red deck of playing cards on a platform. A magician’s top hat drops down on top of the cards, triggers a weight to fall which pulls the hat back up, and when the hat is lifted the deck of cards is now blue.
I really wish I had video of that! And of course, I can’t actually tell you how the “magic” worked…
Love this one.
My contraption has a purpose..not a noble one mind you but a purpose nonetheless….
http://tinyurl.com/kjt3q
Wow, this is truly hightech - I loved it!
meh…
Yikes, what a lot of crappy attitudes.
Oooommmm, guys, chill out.
I thought “rubeburg au natural” was wonderful, appropriate to it’s setting, with the bell as a fitting finale. However, sadly failing to impart it’s peace to some viewers.
Guys, Amanda is just a click away in the archives, nu?
any one who thinks that was lame… is stupid.
coolest RB in a long while.
Great clip if a little out of date.
The vernacular “Rube Goldberg machine” was officially replaced a few years back with the phrase, the “Donald Rumsfeld Device”.
Otherwise, a great piece. Hope Amanda enjoys the weekend!
Last I heard, string isn’t found in nature.
There should be a merit badge in the Boy Scouts for this. Then you’ll really see some creativity unleashed. Nice piece. Very Rocketboom.
I was going to make some lame comment like “someone’s got too much time on their hands” and “what kind of awful parents would name their son after cheese” (yes, I know it’s spelled Brie), but what the hell, it’s Friday. Why shouldn’t those guys spend a few days in the woods making….whatever. If it gets them up from the alter of Roddenberry and out into the fresh air then go for it.
This is the kind of thing I watch RB for. Welcome home Amanda and Drew.
Nice, guys.
Although… Bre’s glasses were distractingly passé.
guess like Letterman and Stern. RB’s gotten too big, and Manda only vblogs a 4 day week? (maybe you can get Cali Lewis to stand-in on Fridays: she says she works for Ramen Noodles…)
Cartoonist from the 30’s Antonio. http://www.rube-goldberg.com
More beauty and light from the Rocket Source.
Keep it coming.
“Queen of my heart,
Please hear my plea,
Electric Aunt Jemima,
Cook a bunch for me…”
-Zappa
What no amanda ? I feel cheated ~
Lovely RB today. Amanda is very nice to see when she is here but let her be when she is not. Or she becomes a fetish object and her body does too and that is no good. Try to enjoy a nice offering when it comes your way.
Someone told me to come to this website because is was good.
I think its a big toss and a waste of time. Get a Life Nerds FC
It worked!
Strange, I just watched The Goonies yesterday and was thinking, wow…that thing that opens the door in the opening scene would be a such a dream vlog! You guys beat me to it!
This was fun. I especially liked the spinny leaf thing.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Honda commercial a few years back in which they built a Rube Goldberg machine out of all the parts of the car. At the end, the machine finally causes the car to roll down a little ramp and present itself. The camera work actually allowed you to see what was happening (sorry Bre).
Anyone else remember this? It’s one of the best I’ve seen.
nice casual friday
was wondering if you ever considered doing 5 minute mainstream news thing, but with a rocketboom twist
sort of the vlogger take on how the network news should be done
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Hey newguy. That show is called The Daily Show. Might have seen it on Comedy Central?
Speaking of which, Amanda could maybe pull of a corespondant position….
Verry nicely done!
Please also have a look at the work of the world famouse artists: Peter Fischli & David Weiss.
They made a film caled Der Lauf der Dinge (thats german and means: “the way things go”) it is 30 minutes long and none stop “action reaction objects”. When i first saw it i was realy amazed (and still am). It has been released on DVD so if you can find it bey it!
I think they are to old to be online people.. so i could not realy find a good personal site of them..
but if you google for these words “Lauf der dinge Peter Fischli David Weiss” you wil get a couple of hits.
greetings Gijs
Casual Friday !!! WOO HOO >> wait..
on no.. this looks like a scene from the blair witch project or something..
im not going to stand in the corner, im not going to stand in the corner..
lastlapnick.blogspot.com
I’m so sick of looking at that backdrop, glad she got out of the “studio” which is probably just a wall in her converted living room or something. Do you really think they didn’t edit that sequence? Come on how stupid are you people? This is the cut and paste generation, remember? Hello non-linear digital video editors? So, when exactly is this “new media” supposed to replace TV? About the same time the “new math” takes over? Last I checked people still add and subtract. So is Rocketboom hot media or cold media? This feedback isn’t really replied to in the segments unless you are in the “cool kids” clique at the lunch table equivalent of this message board, so I don’t think it is that “hot”. The idea is a good one for sure, but the wider her viewing audience, the more she becomes like regular “old” media like TV, there has to be by definition less response, less feedback, more static. It is kind of a catch 22. And another thing, the way some of you guys fawn over her! Sure she is attractive, but if you’re just looking for a lil t and a, there are 100s of other places you can find that with hotter chicks. You know, I guess I just don’t get it. All the fuss. Clue me in, please, would you?
as gijs mentioned: here a link to a video-sequenz of the swiss artists fischli/weiss: “der lauf der dinge” or here (look 4 “trailer” ;-)
Wow, this reminds me of Japanese Pitagora-switch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94EVRn1WG5A&eurl=